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Thursday, May 25, 2006
DO it, Doggie!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune
Fine. I’ll admit it.
I’d LOVE to see one - just ONE - Braves starter take full-throttle batting practice on an innocent Igloo cooler in the dugout the next time some team we should pound into the Turner Field ground is about to sweep us or has a huge lead or - get this - the bullpen has blown said starter’s lead late in a game.
Don’t care which guy it is, although seeing Smoltzie or Huddy attack anything that isn’t breathing with a bat in the dugout would be my choice - just want to see that kind of fire. Just ONCE, if - God forbid - we’re blowing it bigtime.
ETA: I mean, just LOOK at Maddux in the photo above. Yeah, I just added it in here. (Oh, the joy of technology.) Doggie’s going craaa-zay on that cooler and as any good Tomahawks fan knows, that’s totally So Not Maddux. But dude… how totally KILLER is it to see the MAD in Mad Dog come out to play? Or, um, smash stuff?
And OK, so Kolb had hissy fits when he was here. Big whoop. Maddux has established himself as a proven winner who’s Hall of Fame-bound. He’s also known for his quietude in the clubhouse and on the mound - the occasional “$#@%!” single-word obscenity outburst to the sky notwithstanding. Guy like that grabs a bat and goes wackadoo on the Gatorade, his teammates take notice and understand that it means something. Guy like Kolb does it and the team likely wonders when the clubhouse kid is gonna replenish the drink supply because the cooler was nice and full and all icey-cold. In other words, nobody’s impressed.
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